Chapel At Rubery Hill Hospital

The chapel at Rubery Hill Hospital is a hospital chapel built in 1882 by Martin and Chamberlain of Birmingham for the Borough of Birmingham's Lunatic Asylums Committee of Visitors, with 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar sandstone and terracotta dressings, topped by a plain tiled roof. The building has an aisless plan that includes a nave, which is now subdivided for Anglican and Catholic worship, and an apsidal chapel, designed in the Early English style.

The nave consists of eight bays featuring plain entrance doorways that are enclosed by a corridor of the adjacent hospital. Each bay has coupled lancets that rise from a moulded brick string, with windows that have steeply-sloping ashlar cills. The windows are framed by moulded brick surrounds within chamfered brick openings. A moulded string runs above the window heads, supporting a plain eaves. The nave bays are marked by stepped brick buttresses with moulded margins and ashlar set-offs, and there are four roof gablets on each slope.

There is a doorway in each side wall, located four bays from the entry end. A bellcote projects from a broken gable, which is flanked by spired turrets. The apse features coupled lancets in each of its five bays, set between stepped buttresses, with a continuous hood mould that runs around the upper set-offs of the buttresses. Inside, the chapel has hammer-beam roof trusses that are arch-braced and supported by ashlar wall corbels. Engaged columns support the chancel arch, and the nave is divided into two unequal sections of five and three bays by a plain inserted partition.